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On 05/30/2012 12:43 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4FC6786E.8000707@v.loewis.de" type="cite">Please
understand that Visual Studio never had the notion of "targetting"
an operating system. The Windows SDK has that notion,
and it appears that targetting XP continues to be supported. <br>
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I may be misremembering, but--the C API of necessity calls the Win32
API. So if Microsoft chooses to call new Win32 APIs as part of the
C API, this can force you to require a minimum Windows version. I
dimly recall an incident some years back where part of the startup
code for a C program (code called before main / WinMain) was calling
a newish API, and thus programs generated with that version of the
compiler could not support older Windows versions.<br>
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<i>/arry</i><br>
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